The trucking company involved in the deadly school bus accident in Mount Olive on Thursday has hundreds of recent safety violations and has been involved in eight separate crashes, including five resulting in injuries, according to federal transportation records.

=Digital freight broker Convoy last week released a new feature designed to give small truckload carriers broader access to the widely used drop-and-hook process, freeing up capacity from smaller carriers in an atypically constrained market.

Trucking Moves America Forward (TMAF), the industry-wide education and image movement, announced it is once again an official affiliate of Infrastructure Week, which will take place May 14-19. Infrastructure Week is a series of events, education, and advocacy efforts aimed at highlighting infrastructure as a key policy issue nationwide.